KM
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KM is the stock ticker symbol formerly used to represent Kmart Corporation, a major American discount department store chain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KM canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521323 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: KM Context triple: [Kmart Corporation, tickerSymbol, KM]
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A.
KA
KA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the German city of Karlsruhe.
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B.
KE
KE is the IATA airline designator for Korean Air, the flag carrier and largest airline of South Korea.
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C.
KE
KE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Kenya for international identification and data standards.
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D.
Ka
Ka was an early ancient Egyptian king of the First Dynasty period, known from tomb inscriptions at Abydos and considered one of the first rulers to use a royal serekh.
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E.
Ki
Ki is the Sumerian earth goddess and primordial mother figure in Mesopotamian mythology, often paired with the sky god Anu in creation traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: KM Target entity description: KM is the stock ticker symbol formerly used to represent Kmart Corporation, a major American discount department store chain.
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A.
KA
KA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the German city of Karlsruhe.
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B.
KE
KE is the IATA airline designator for Korean Air, the flag carrier and largest airline of South Korea.
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C.
KE
KE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Kenya for international identification and data standards.
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D.
Ka
Ka was an early ancient Egyptian king of the First Dynasty period, known from tomb inscriptions at Abydos and considered one of the first rulers to use a royal serekh.
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E.
Ki
Ki is the Sumerian earth goddess and primordial mother figure in Mesopotamian mythology, often paired with the sky god Anu in creation traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
discount department store chain
ⓘ
retail company ⓘ stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| associatedCompany | Kmart Corporation ⓘ |
| associatedCompanyHeadquartersCity | Troy, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCompanyHeadquartersCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| associatedCompanyHeadquartersState | Michigan ⓘ |
| associatedIndustry |
discount department stores
ⓘ
retail ⓘ |
| businessModel | discount retailing ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfExchange |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerStockTicker | KM ⓘ |
| foundedAs | S.S. Kresge Company ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Troy, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| predecessor | S.S. Kresge Company ⓘ |
| represents | Kmart Corporation ⓘ |
| securityType | common stock ⓘ |
| status | former ticker symbol ⓘ |
| storeFormat |
big-box store
ⓘ
discount department store ⓘ |
| usedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: KM Description of subject: KM is the stock ticker symbol formerly used to represent Kmart Corporation, a major American discount department store chain.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
KM